Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics and supporters alike of 1-2-3 said that the unusually high voter turnout that hurled Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf to the top of the City Council preliminary vote count would probably ensure the referendum's failure...
Although final results will not be available for more than a week, the high turnout should tend to favor liberal council candidates and work against 1-2-3, according to Noah M. Berger '89, the executive director of the Cambridge Civic Association...
However, the high turnout may also favor theindependents. With 1-2-3 on the ballot this fall,small property owners and other real estateinterests have staged a highly vocal campaignwhich may result in broad support from across thecity...
...residents said that, more than any other issue, Proposition 1-2-3 drove them to the polls--leading to the highest turnout in six years, with about 27,300 residents, or 57 percent of those registered, voting...
With what some are calling the city's highest-ever turnout of Black voters, Mayor-elect David N. Dinkins accepted his win to the cheers of a uniquely diverse audience--racially and ethnically. Tailoring a speech to their likes proved difficult, however, as Dinkins struggled between the rhetoric of his grassroots following and the party establishment...